Jean L. Kreiling is the author of three collections of poetry, Shared History (2022), Arts & Letters & Love (2018), and The Truth in Dissonance (2014). Her poems have appeared widely in print and online journals as well as in anthologies, and she has won the Frost Farm Prize, the Able Muse Write Prize, the String Poet Prize, and three New England Poetry Club Prizes, among other honors. She is an Associate Poetry Editor for Able Muse Review, and her interdisciplinary articles on the relationships between music and poetry appear frequently in academic journals.

Books 

Shared History (Kelsay Books, 2022)
Arts & Letters & Love (Kelsay Books, 2018)
The Truth in Dissonance (White Violet Press, 2014)

Poetry Online

“After Reading Hemingway Late at Night” The Literary Nest
“Winter Boats” Cannon Poets
“Three Men” The Ekphrastic Review
“Timpani in the Time of Coronavirus” Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
“Family Reunion Photo Taken on a Cruise Ship” and “Brahms on Interstate 95” Mezzo Cammin
“Ovillejo for the Librarian” Antiphon

Anthologies

The Powow River Poets Anthology II (Able Muse Press, 2021)
Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse, ed. Maja Trochimczyk (Moonrise Press, 2021) The Great Gatsby Anthology. ed. Melanie Villines (Silver Birch Press, 2015)

Honors

Frost Farm Prize, 2022
Kelsay Books Metrical Poetry Contest, First Prize, 2019
Samuel Washington Allen Prize, New England Poetry Club, 2018
Norma Farber/Rosalie Boyle Award, New England Poetry Club, 2017 and 2016
Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters Sonnet Prize, 2016
String Poet Prize, 2013
The Lyric Quarterly Prize, 2012
Able Muse Write Prize, 2011
Finalist, Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2009
Finalist, Richard Wilbur Poetry Award, 2021, 2019, 2012
Honorable Mention, Able Muse Book Award, 2016, 2015, 2012